THE BOOK OF BOSTON

"Unvisited Places of Old Europe"

Illustrated by R. L. Boyer

Penn Publishing Company
1916


The Park Street Church, from the Common

CONTENTS CHAPTER I: TAKING STOCK OF THE CITY CHAPTER II: BOSTON COMMON CHAPTER III: BOSTON PREFERRED CHAPTER IV: ON THE PRIM, DECOROUS HILL CHAPTER V: THE CITY OF HOLMES CHAPTER VI: A HOUSE SET ON A HILL CHAPTER VII: A PICTURESQUE BOSTONIAN CHAPTER VIII: A WOMAN’S CITY CHAPTER IX: THE DISTINCTIVE PARK STREET CORNER CHAPTER X: TWO FAMOUS OLD BUILDINGS CHAPTER XI: TO THE OLD STATE HOUSE CHAPTER XII: FANEUIL HALL AND THE WATERSIDE CHAPTER XIII: THE STREETS OF BOSTON CHAPTER XIV: IN THE OLD NORTH END CHAPTER XV: DOWN WAPPING STREET AND UP BUNKER HILL CHAPTER XVI: THE BACK BAY AND THE STUDENTS’ QUARTER CHAPTER XVII: HEIGHTS REACHED AND KEPT CHAPTER XVIII: “COLLEGES RED AND COMMON GREEN” CHAPTER XIX: AN ADVENTURE IN PURE ROMANCE CHAPTER XX: A TOWN THAT WASHINGTON WANTED TO SEE CHAPTER XXI: THE FAMOUS OLD SEAPORT OF SALEM CHAPTER XXII: THE MOST IMPORTANT ROAD IN AMERICA CHAPTER XXIII: PLYMOUTH AND PROVINCETOWN CHAPTER XXIV: “THE NIGHT FILLED WITH MUSIC” ILLUSTRATIONS The Park Street Church, from the Common Doorway of the old house of the Harvard Presidents, Cambridge The Shaw Memorial Fountain on the Common Boston from the Charles The Long Path St. Paul's, facing the Common A doorway on Beacon Hill Beautiful Mount Vernon Street A Beacon Street mantel of 1818 The high-shouldered end of Cedar Street Looking down old Pinckney Street Thomas Bailey Aldrich's doorway Quaint steps at end of Bosworth Street The doorway of Prescott's home on Beacon Hill The Sunny Street that holds the Sifted Few Iron gateway at the State House The Bostonian Hub of the Universe Looking across the Public Garden The Mall, across from Hancock's house John Hancock's sofa Entrance to the Women's City Club A spiral stairway, by Bulfinch, on Beacon Hill The Museum of Fine Arts, from the Fenway The gate of the Granary Burying-Ground Tremont Street along the Common Old King's Chapel Statue of Franklin at the City Hall A narrow byway The Old State House Old India Wharf Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market T Wharf Bridge on the Fenway On Commonwealth Avenue Old North Church Interior of the Paul Revere house Bunker Hill Monument "Old Ironsides" Where the British landed: the Navy Yard, Charlestown The Boston Library A Venetian palace in the Fenlands Cloistered courtyard of Boston Library Statue of Washington in Public Garden Knox's cannon, on Cambridge Common The Washington Elm, Cambridge The Main Gateway of Harvard At the Arnold Arboretum Birthplace of two Presidents, The Fairbanks house, Dedham; probably the oldest in New England Church at Quincy Stairway in the Lee mansion, Marblehead The harbor of Marblehead The old Cradock house on the Mystic A Salem doorway Romantic Chestnut Street, in Salem Hawthorne's birthplace, Salem The Old Manse, Concord "Here Once the Embattled Farmers Stood": Concord Emerson's library The Alden house, at Duxbury Plymouth, from the Graveyard on the Hill Sand dunes of Provincetown Along Charlesbank Old Louisburg Square A Club hallway